About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, February 09, 2007

February 9......

February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 325 (326 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

● 1267 - Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps

● 1499 - France & Venice sign treaty against Milan

● 1537 - Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England

● 1554 - Battle at London Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated

● 1555 - Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.

● 1574 - Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht

● 1619 - Vanini burned at the stake as an atheist. {I have never understood the logic of this; burning at the stake was supposed to convert them at the moment of death?}

● 1621 - Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation.

● 1861 - Former Mississippi Sen. Jefferson Davis is elected provisional President of the new Confederate States of America, at a constitutional convention at Montgomery, Alabama. War with the Union would begin two months later; in November, Davis would be elected to a presumably permanent six-year term.

● 1861 - Tennessee votes against secession

● 1861 - Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states

● 1930 - American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'

● 1942 - World War II: Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in the war.

● 1942 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States.

● 1943 - World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal.

● 1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

● 1943 - German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes", 1,200 in Vught Camp

● 1943 - Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents

● 1944 - U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland

● 1944 - Birth of novelist and activist Alice Walker.

● 1945 - Germany destroys Ruhrdammen

● 1945 - WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire

● 1946 - Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms

● 1947 - Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA

● 1948 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'

● 1950 - Second Red Scare: Sen. Joseph McCarthy, in Wheeling, West Virginia, accuses State Department employees of Communist Party affiliation. "I have here in my hand," he states, "the names of 205 men that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department." Some years later, he confided the paper was actually an old laundry list. {The first Red Scare was when McCarthy accused the Armed Forces of being filled with Communists.}

● 1987 - New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club

● 1988 - Panel of international historians issues a report finding Austrian President Kurt Waldheim knew of war crimes committed by his WWII units, and that he concealed and misrepresented his service during the war. He also served as Secretary General of the United Nations.

● 2001 - The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School, killing nine people aboard the boat.

● 2002 - Britain's Princess Margaret, the sister of Queen Elizabeth II, died at age 71.

● 2006 - Kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll appeared in a video aired on a private Kuwaiti TV station, appealing for her supporters to do whatever it took to win her release "as quickly as possible." (She was freed on March 30, 2006.)

● Roman Catholic:● St. Alexander● St. Alto● St. Ammon● St. Ansbert of Rouen● St. Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians● St. Cronan the Wise● St. Cuaran● St. Eingan● St. Michael Febres Cordero● St. Nebridius● St. Nicephorus● St. Raynald of Nocera● St. Teilo● Bl. Alvarez of Córdoba

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 27 (Civil Date: February 9)● Translation of the relics of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople.● St. Peter of Egypt.● New-Martyr Demetrius at Constantinople.● St. Titus the Soldier, monk of the Kiev Caves.● New Hieromartyr Peter Zverev (1929).

● Greek Calendar:● Translation of the Relics of St. Marciana the Queen to the Church of the Holy Apostles.● St. Claudinus, monk.● Repose of Nun Neonilla of the Farther Davidov Convent (1875).

● Old Roman Catholic:● St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop/confessor/doctor

● Lebanon - St. Maroon's Day

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week"● World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - ( Sunday )

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Life long Liberal. Actually saw JFK on campaign trail. Defining moment of my life was the assassination of JFK. First presidential election I participated in was knocking on doors for McGovern, have been tilting at windmills ever since.